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Brandon Rael, Business Transformation Leader, Capgemini Invent joins us to talk about innovation in retail. Capgemini Invent is Capgemini Group’s innovation, design, and transformation powerhouse, accelerating ideas into prototypes and scalable real-world solutions that help our clients get the future they want. By combining strategy, technology, data science, and creative design expertise with an inventive mindset, we partner with our clients to innovate and transform their business, helping them navigate today while plotting a course for the future   Today’s guest  Brandon Real Brandon Rael Business Transformation Leader Capgemini Invent  Podcast Hosts Jeff Roster Twitter https://twitter.com/JeffPR LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-roster-bb51b8/ Website https://thisweekininnovation.com Brian Sathianathan Twitter  https://twitter.com/BrianVision Website https://www.iterate.ai Podcast Website https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-f8asf-af2782 https://thisweekininnovation.com Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-innovation/id1562068014 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2QDqTUnt6jebdRHbRzSTJN LaunchPadOne https://www.launchpaddm.com/pd/This-Week-in-Innovation?showAllEpisodes=true Listen Notes https://lnns.co/2QPSfnizE5K   #TRI2022, #innovation,#retail, #thisweekininnovation, #DigitalTransformation, #podcast, #retailpodcast, #emergingtechnologies, #5ForcesOfInnovation, , #Startup, #Startups,,#Retailers, #retail, #retailtechnology, #retailtech, #futureofretail, #retailtrends, #ArtificialIntelligence , #AI, #cloud, #InternetOfThings, #IoT, #Blockchain, #LowCode,  #conversationalai,,#supply chain, #computervision, #VentureCapital, #VC, #Founders, #Entrepreneurs, #mobile, #Gartner, #IHL, #virtualreality, #augmentedreality, #vr, #3d, #ar, #XR, #livestreaming, #socialcommerce, #metaverse, Transcript     [00:00:00] Jeff Roster: hello everybody. And welcome back to this weekend. Innovation today. [00:00:02] I have a, an old clubhouse friend Brandon Al business transformation leader at cap Gemini invent Brandon. Welcome to the. [00:00:10] Brandon Real: Thank you so much, Jeff, for having me. It's a pleasure to meet you, Brian as well. [00:00:13] Brian Sath: Likewise, welcome Brandon. [00:00:15] Jeff Roster: So Brandon, why don't you start by talking about, we all know cap Gemini, but cap Gemini invent is a term that I a group that I haven't, I've just only started to take a look at. [00:00:24] So why don't you unpack a little bit about what that is. Tell us about yourself, your background and what you're doing. [00:00:30] Brandon Real: yeah. First about my background as you mentioned in our clubhouse meetings I have a deep background in retail merchandising, supply chain. I actually was a retailer, so I walked the walk. [00:00:39] I talked the talk and and I enjoy just solving complex business challenges and enabling through technology events and some transforming businesses and growing revenue, his dreams, and just halfway through my career, I decided to make the pivot over to consulting. And I joined a number of firms where I've focused on business digital and technology transformations and helping to pivot these organizations, especially in the [00:01:00] retail space, to the new ways of shopping in the ways of engaging a customer and especially all the digital. [00:01:06] Innovations have come up the last five to 10 years, I've really focused on the customer journey, the customer experience and across all the platform, which you can imagine cap Gemini invent is essentially the transformation innovation powerhouse that doesn't compare to the larger firm. [00:01:19] People know that cap I is at really KA is that really Lauries a significant. Technology implementation partner that's that really works with companies for two or four, five year engagements that really drives process improvements. And then is that integration partner you have, but then, but the innovation side is re